BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo developer and politician Carl Paladino is being criticized for yet another email he forwarded to his large list of contacts.

The most recent email looks like it’s been going around the internet for at least a year now.

It's called 19 Pictures from Hell and suggests France, specifically Paris, is being destroyed by immigrants. Paladino sent the email out over his expansive list of email contacts Wednesday.

It includes 19 images that seem to have come from various parts of the internet. They are of almost exclusively black and brown people doing generally innocuous things, with some trash and tents and soldiers thrown in.

Next to the photos are captions, supposedly the story of a “neutral Czech” who visited the city and was shocked to find among other things, no white people at a train station or on a subway car.

Paladino said he didn't and still does not believe there was any problem with the email.

"I sent out an article that I thought was truthful, as I usually do,” he said. “I read it. The person had an opinion in the article. I thought the article was factually based about what was going on over in these European cities and I sent it out."

Some members of the community, including Assembly Member Sean Ryan, disagree with Paladino's assessment of the email's message. Ryan said he's been spreading hate like this for too long.

At a press conference Thursday, he called for all people who associate with Paladino, be it banks or tenants that do business with Ellicott Development, or civic groups — some of which Paladino's a board member — do some soul searching.

"These organizations would never take positions like the ones that Carl Paladino routinely takes so they need to ask themselves, why are they doing business with somebody who spreads messages of hate and bigotry throughout our community?" Ryan asked.

Others at the press conference included Erie County Legislator April Baskin, D, Coalition for Economic Justice Director Kirk Laubenstein and NAACP Buffalo chapter leader Mark Blue.

"I know that the First Amendment is there for everybody, but listen, if you're going to live by it you're going to die by it. People are not here to just continue with the antics that people are spewing,” Blue said. “We don't have to take this stuff."

Ryan said he inherited a district office that was leased by Ellicott Development and actively chose to get out of that building because of Paladino. He also recognized Ellicott Development works on projects with state and local governments, IDAs, etcetera and said that's something they may have to look at.

Paladino's response was essentially ‘bring it.’ He's not worried about his bottom line at this point.

Part of the reason, the email is drawing attention is because it’s happened repeatedly. Paladino sent emails out that were heavily scrutinized when he ran for governor. He was also kicked off the Buffalo School Board for a situation that started with comments about then-First Lady Michelle Obama.

“I'm not a racist,” he said. “You want to call me a racist, go ahead. You're free to. I don't look at myself as being a racist.